Long Road Together (Ephesians 4)
We walk into understanding. We walk into wholeness. He completes every small thing that concerns us as we walk. Eyes become clear and legs become strong. Hands become eager...
Arrebato. Repossess.
The youngest, just 13, watches her four-month old son as he sleeps. She was a slave when they found her, when they rescued her and brought her to this...
Knees Become Roots (Ephesians 3)
Close your eyes, little love. Close your eyes and imagine a garden. Do you see it now? It's there behind a gleaming gate held up by - wait, it...
Autographed by God (Ephesians 2)
Remember the days of talking big and fearing bigger - of staking claims on land that crumbled like dust. We thought we knew it all then, thought if we...
Champagne and Confetti. (Ephesians 1)
Rewind now to before the beginning, before life and birth and striving and falling and paradise and that Voice speaking "it is good." Before anything began, the conversation included...
A Fine Day for You to be God
My hands felt so empty. I wanted to snatch her from the slum and be her safekeeping, to build a big house and take away all longing, to make...
Paint a Story (Proverbs 14)
My friend Wycliffe wrote, "Proverbs 14:1. That was our sermon today." And so I journeyed there - to the scriptures, to meditate and see what God might have for...
Pity Stays at the Door.
After spending time with single moms in a remote town in Honduras - all hard-working women who taught their children to be honorable and never ashamed of their condition,...
I am Bright. (Psalm 18)
And all grew quiet.
And then You reached for me, cradling me in Your arms. You lifted me from the ashes and the drowning. You breathed Your life into my...
Sing Like Soaking Rains.
Have you heard the sound before? I bet you have.
The sound is like rain - like the soaking rains that come down gently and do no harm and...
May I Be So Bold. (#oneword365)
Yes, I'm back.
It's a quiet return to this place, with a story about my #oneword365. I believe with all my heart that the words inspired by 1 Chronicles...
The World Inside.
But for forty days, save a few hours of guests stopping by, it was just Mary and Joseph and Jesus. I wonder what life was like in those forty...
